² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

¹⁷ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.